Well, yeah.
First of all, this is the third time that Gus Malzahn has taken a preseason top-10 team that should be very good and taken it into bust territory. We’ll be lucky to finish with less than five losses and that’s not the kind of performance that $7M every year buys. It’s really complicated, and there are a bunch of different variables that go into this, but I’ll try to lay it out fairly succinctly.
The contract apparently wasn’t drawn by our last AD, Jay Jacobs, who was already on his way out of office. It wasn’t drawn by our new AD, Allen Greene, either, since he was just on his way in.